Hoetker, Glenn
>
> I need to place the covariance matrix of my RHS variables
> into a matrix
> for further manipulation.
>
>
> Many thanks for any hints.  I've looked through the help and manuals
> repeatedly, but I still feel like I'm missing something obvious.
>
. findit covariance matrix
Selected results:
FAQ     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Obtaining the
correlation matrix
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W. Gould
        12/99   How can I obtain the correlation matrix as a Stata
                matrix?
                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/rho.html
STB-56  dm79 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Yet more new matrix
commands
        (help matcorr, matewmf, matvsort, svmat2 if installed) . . .
N. J. Cox
        7/00    pp.4--8; STB Reprints Vol 10, pp.17--23
        commands to produce a correlation matrix, elementwise monadic
        function of another matrix, selected subsets of matrix rows
        and columns, vec or vech of a matrix, elements sorted within
        a vector, matrix from a vector, and commands to save matrices
corrmat from http://www.stata.com/users/sdriver
    corrmat.  Create and save correlation or covariance matrices.  /
Program
    by Shannon Driver, StataCorp <[email protected]>. / Creates a
correlation
    matrix, covariance matrix, or both and optionally / saves them in
the
    return list and/or matrix dir.
Nick
[email protected]
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